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{input-encodings} is about the various input code pages like latin1 or utf-8 ({unicode}) which interpret the sequence of numbers underlying text files and map each number to a certain glyph (character). A popular package for pdfLaTeX is inputenc.

I started typing in a latex template provided by my school. Inside the document, when I use special characters such as accents or umlauts (e.g. ë) they encode just fine. When I use an external file ...

I have added a lot of new references to my .bib file, which I got from online portals like sciencedirect.com.
I'm managing my .bib file with JabRef 2.10.
My bib file was encoded in latin1 (CP1252), ...

My .tex files use textencoding latin1. For some practical reason I wanted to switch my bibliography .bib files to UTF8.
I tried that and (as the bibliography now was not typeset correctly) found the ...

Suppose, I want to write a word with diacritical marks, say fïbęj, and I cannot use Unicode or similar but instead I have to keep maximum compatibility for all sorts of situations. If I am not very ...

How do I type d with check? It should look something like Ť (small).
Other letters like r or c do look like \v{c} or \v{r} but t and d are different when typing check over them.
I use English ASCII ...

I have a custom .sty-file in cp1251 encoding which is defines \RequirePackage[cp1251]{inputenc}. I use it for compile with pdflatex in the same encoding, But when I try to compile some file with other ...

"Never ever use non-ASCII characters and spaces in your filenames. Never!"
That's what I'm telling my students for years. But if for any reasons there is an urgent need to include an image file with ...

I'm writing a Python program that reads some text files and writes the data to some TeX files. Unfortunately the TeX compilation stops with
Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:´é« not set up for ...

So I am attempting to write a document in Estonian language.
Currently what I do to get characters like Ä appear at all, is use this syntax:
\"{chracter_I_want_with_dots•}
But I am going to write a ...

When recently updated my texstudio to v2.8, it turns out that the option of "system" encoding (i.e. system's native ASCII configuration) isn't one of the options when choosing an encoding.
Assuming ...

I am helping a friend use LaTeX to generate a book of short stories. The stories are received from the authors in MS Word -- unfortunately that is only text editor most of the world knows. There is no ...

Good afternoon, I bought Minion Pro fonts (regular and italics) in order to use them with a classicthesis document. And following the instructions you gave me recently, I run with Xelatex but it did ...

This is a best practices question.
Should I encode tex files in ascii or should I use utf-8? Is either preferred for a reason (ANY reason) in the case where ascii characters and nothing else appear ...

I am creating a document in greek, using babel and utf8 encoding. I am using MiKTeX 2.9 and TeXMakeR. When trying to produce a document I get the error
Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:Γ not ...

A newbie question.
I have a number of colleagues who always use a different editor rather than texshop to edit, but use texshop to compile nonetheless. The reason I was told is that texshop corrupt ...

I am trying to redefine \v command (wedge above character) to do what \vec does in mathmode and preserve \v in a command called, say \hac. This code works perfect
\documentclass{article}
\let\hac\v%
...

Perhaps this question has been asked already, but my search efforts were unsuccessful.
Is it necessary to have ASCII characters (i.e. letters basically [a..z,A..Z], special characters such as \( etc ...